Anna Pauline Curtis, 80

ARKADELPHIA, Ark.— Anna Pauline Curtis, 80, of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, passed from this life on November 10, 2012 at the Twin Rivers Health and Rehabilitation Center.

Anna was born on August 29, 1932 in El Paso, Texas to Mr. and Mrs. Honeycut and was adopted by Roy and Edna Elba ‘Dockray’ Worley when only a baby.

Upon the death of both Roy and Edna, Lois ‘Worley’ Williams daughter of Roy and Edna, and her husband Jude Williams, took her to raise at the age of 6. She grew up in the Sacramento Mountains and attended school at Mayhill, New Mexico elementary then went on to high school in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Jude and Lois moved to Alamogordo when Anna was 17 years old.

She was a faithful member of the Church of Christ for many years and dearly loved all her family. On November 20, 1958, she married Veolan Elmer Curtis in Alamogordo, New Mexico and they resided in Alamogordo, New Mexico until Veolan retired after which they moved from the Alamogordo area and lived several different places. Upon the death of her husband, she was moved to Arkansas where she lived out the rest of her life.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Edna Worley, her husband, Veolan E. Curtis; one sister, Willie Lois ‘Worley’ Williams; and three brothers, Jimmie, Thomas Orval, and Jack Worley; one step-son, Richard James Showers; four grandchildren, Crystal Ann Thelan, Kenneth Micheal Curtis, Juanitta Louise Honeycutt, Clairce Starr, and one great-grandchild.